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Changelog: Subscribe to a Post’s Threads v2

Nick Taylor on May 06, 2020

You could already subscribe to a post's comments on DEV, but the problem was many community members were not aware that you could. We had this feat...
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Ben Halpern

The impetus for developing this out so it's easier to select (The old UI was brutal even if you knew it existed 😵) was that every time folks used it, they were really happy they did. It let's you keep up with ideas you care about. If you come across a conversation you want to pay attention to it's a lot easier to get the stream into your notifications than otherwise.

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Keff

Cool addition, I didn't know this feature existed

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Josh Puetz

This is one of the main reasons we made this change! I also had no idea this feature existed!

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Ben Halpern

Oh look what showed up in my notifications after I subscribed to this thread...

josh

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Habdul Hazeez

Same here.

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Thomas Bnt ☕

It's really better ! More engagement for subscribe comments. Great job 🙌☕

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Nick Taylor

Chow Yun-fat giving a thumbs up

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Pankaj Kumar

It is nice addition. Can we get bookmark or save to reading list button on post with other icons ? It happens that I have liked the post.I want to save it for future as well. But I don't see option. I have to go to search bar and save click button. It will be easy if save button exists with other icon.
Thanks for doing great work man.

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Nick Taylor

It's actually already there in the reactions area of a post. 😄

Reaction icons for a DEV post

It's the blue icon in the sidebar of a post, or at the bottom if on mobile.

Bookmark a DEV post icon

I'm glad you mentioned it though as perhaps you are not the only one that may not be aware that that's what that icon is.

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Pankaj Kumar

Ohh I never knew that. I thought it is just another icon like heart 😂😂. Thanks.

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Nick Taylor

I only posted the article today because a bunch of pages had to be invalidated from the cache. Glad you were curious about it yesterday though. 😉

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Peyton McGinnis

Reminds me of a quote...

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. (Phil Karlton)

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Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴

😅 I saw the button yesterday but was waiting for this blog post to understand it better.

Looks awesome and really useful!

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Nick Taylor

Borat saying "Great Success!"

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Michael Tharrington

I actually use this one all the time, but was pleasantly surprised to see the new location just today! It's much more intuitive. Nice work!!

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Nick Taylor

Noice!

Noice!

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negue

Awesome! 🎉

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Habdul Hazeez

This is interesting!